Slow decisions on such matters will further distract international attention from Israel's territorial expansion in the West Bank.

You're trying to distract me.

You're really trying to distract me.

He's using pain to distract himself.

We understand that both sides have domestic concerns and demands to address. But that cannot distract our attention from the parties' responsibilities to each other.

Don't distract me while I am studying.

Don't distract me while I am studying.

Shut up, please do not distract me.

Go away, Anatole. You will distract us.

Ms. Fall said that the policy focus on drugs in disease prevention should not distract attention from the importance of adequate nourishment and clean water in preserving health.

It was easy to avoid the central issue and distract attention from the information presented on the grave violations of international law, treaties, and resolutions of the United Nations.

I take a glass too much to distract me.

Listen! I'll run and distract them. Escape while you can.

Have you not seen that they wander distract in every valley,

Have you not seen that they wander distract in every valley,

I thought it would give you pleasure and distract your mind.

Moreover, some have expressed concern that the tsunami disaster might distract people's attention from other issues, especially the concerns of the small island developing States and this year's review of the Millennium Development Goals.

Several experts from developing countries expressed concern that joint implementation (JI) could distract attention from the meeting of certain obligations of Annex 1 Parties under the UNFCCC, particularly those relating to technology transfer and finance.

I'll distract him, so you can run to the river and get away.

Exchanges of views might help narrow differences in perceptions. But some calls for international coordination are less useful, particularly when the aim is to blame foreigners in order to distract attention from domestic constraints and disagreements.

The presenter of the theme Women and the Millennium Development Goals emphasized that the policy focus on drugs in disease prevention should not distract attention from the importance of adequate nourishment and clean water in preserving health.

This would distract the Commission on Human Rights from its core activity of protecting human rights.

As a result, Pakistan s reliance on China has been strengthened, not weakened. And, instead of reducing the chances of a nuclear standoff in South Asia, the White House plan served only to distract attention from efforts to address tensions between India and Pakistan.

The prediction in his report (ibid., para. 11) that Israel would drag out decisions on the future of Gaza to distract world attention from its territorial expansion in the West Bank through the construction of the wall and settlements had proven accurate.

Other amendments in document A 53 L.42 are similar attempts to distract the attention of the membership from the core issue of the voting threshold in the General Assembly in the important matter of the expansion and reform of the Security Council.

Violence will not distract us from the main goal of building a democratic, pluralistic, federal and unified Iraq.

My favorite being, Cheese crumbs spread before a pair of copulating rats will distract the female, but not the male.

Those resolutions serve only to distract the parties from more pressing issues and do nothing to help the peace process.

We could, of course, distract the cat by suggesting that he take a few days off to play a little too.

Moreover, he never misses an opportunity to remind the world that Russia remains a major power, able and willing to act on behalf of its perceived interests. It is also possible that he sought to distract domestic attention from a shrinking economy and the rising cost of intervention in Ukraine.

For both Europe and America, the danger now is that politicians and markets believe that monetary policy can revive the economy. Unfortunately, its main impact at this point is to distract attention from measures that would truly stimulate growth, including an expansionary fiscal policy and financial sector reforms that boost lending.

Most economists stress the superiority of the free trade model and point to the power of lobbies and interest groups to explain its unpopularity in practice. As US Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke has argued, trade expansion inevitably creates some losers, whose protests distract attention from the benefits of globalization.

It's got to be philanthropic, because profits distract biotech, but it's basically got a 90 percent chance, I think, of succeeding in this.

The Millennium Declaration was a necessary step forward, and the current tensions over reform should not distract this body from its ultimate mission.

The innovative sources of finance should be additional to ODA commitments and should not distract donors from achieving the 0.7 per cent target.

We acknowledge that much has happened since then to change the world and to distract us from the task that we set ourselves.

Attention! Attention!

O believers! Do not let your wealth or your children distract you from remembrance of God. Those who do so will be the losers.

O believers! Do not let your wealth or your children distract you from remembrance of God. Those who do so will be the losers.

O you who believe! Let neither your possessions nor your children distract you from the remembrance of God. Whoever does that these are the losers.

O you who believe! Let neither your possessions nor your children distract you from the remembrance of God. Whoever does that these are the losers.

O ye who believe! Let not your wealth nor your children distract you from remembrance of Allah. Those who do so, they are the losers.

O ye who believe! Let not your wealth nor your children distract you from remembrance of Allah. Those who do so, they are the losers.

However, reforms in other fields are equally important and the enlargement of the Security Council should not distract from consultations on other important reform proposals.

The Islamic Republic of Iran categorically rejects the baseless and unsubstantiated allegations raised in the aforementioned letters and considers them as deliberate attempts to distract the international community's attention from the Israeli regime's acts of state terrorism, war crimes and aggression that have persistently threatened peace and security in the region for so many decades.